reader

class dorado.reader

Bases: object

readers need to have a dirscan method and a savewrok method. Readers should also probably have a mkceres method.

Methods Summary

diread(dirarray)	diread intakes a filepath array and catalogues the contents by either 'is file' or 'is directory' and returns the resulting lists.
force16(hdu)	An unfinished convinience function for forcing the datatype of CCDData to be 16-bit instead of 32-bit for consistency and filesize optimization.
newdat()	newdat is an nfinished function that will scan the '$user/.dorado/data/raw' directory for new data to be processed.

Methods Documentation

diread(dirarray)

diread intakes a filepath array and catalogues the contents by either ‘is file’ or ‘is directory’ and returns the resulting lists.

Parameters:

dirarray: str array

array containing the path to the desired directory.

Returns

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force16(hdu)

An unfinished convinience function for forcing the datatype of CCDData to be 16-bit instead of 32-bit for consistency and filesize optimization.

Parameters:

hdu: CCDData

hdu to force 16-bit datatype.

Returns

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NOTE:: in the future this will handle arrays of data instead of single HDU’s and will allow for specifying the bit datatype.

newdat()

newdat is an nfinished function that will scan the ‘$user/.dorado/data/raw’ directory for new data to be processed.

Parameters:

Returns: